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Lacistema coriaceum A. DC.

Candolle de A L P P (1868) Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta, Parisii, Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Wulrtz, Vol. XVI, part 2: 593

Types

Holotype: Spruce 3082 at G-DC

Isotypes: Spruce 3082 at BM, BR, C, G, G, GH, K, MO, NY, P

Syntypes: None specified

Protologue

Foliis ellipticis acute et anguste acuminatis basi obtusis firmis, spiculis petiolo longioribus, sepalis 4 antico lateralibusque late ovatis crenulatis postico ovato minimo;

Rami glaberrimi;
Petioli 2-3 lin. longi. Limbi 3-5 poll. longi, 1-1 1/2 poll. lati, non pellucidi, nervulis tamen subtus eminentibus, margine (sicci) revoluti, acumine saepe oblique; Pili sparsi, brevissimi, adpressi, in pagina infer. foliorum juvenilium;
Racemi plerumque pauci in axilla, 3-12 lin. longi, passim fructus 2-4 praebentes; Bractea floris cujusve concava, margine subintegra; Bracteolae lineares;
Sepalum anticum quam bractea sublongius;
Fructus junior ovoideus, glaber, vix 2 lin. longus, teres. (v.s. in h. meo, et Boiss.)

Original document

Distribution

Rio Negro near San Carlos, Brazil

Habitat

Not specified

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